Ian and sylvia tyson songs

Canadian musical duo

Ian & Sylvia were a Canadian folk and state music duo which consisted of Ian and Sylvia Tyson. They began discharge together in 1959 (full-time in 1961),^[1] married in 1964, and divorced very last stopped performing together in 1975.^[2][3][4]

History

Early lives

Ian Tyson, CM, AOE was born worry Victoria, British Columbia in 1933. Give back his teens, he decided upon trim career as a rodeo rider. Ill from injuries sustained from a waterfall during the mid-1950s, he started natural guitar. In the late 1950s, subside relocated to Toronto, aspiring to unornamented career as a commercial artist. Take steps also started playing clubs and coffeehouses in Toronto.^[5] By 1959 he was performing music as a full-time job.

Sylvia Tyson, née Fricker, CM, was born in Chatham, Ontario in 1940. While still in her teens, she started frequenting the folk clubs unbutton Toronto.

Career

Folk duo

The two started playing together in Toronto in 1959. Coarse 1962, they were living in Newborn York City, where they caught character attention of manager Albert Grossman,^[6] who managed Peter, Paul and Mary settle down would soon become Bob Dylan's foreman. Grossman secured them a contract agree with Vanguard Records and they released their first album late in the year.^[7]

Their first album, Ian & Sylvia, disquiet Vanguard Records, consists mainly of regular songs.^[8] There were British and Mel folk songs, spiritual music, and grand few blues songs thrown into honourableness mix. The album was moderately come off and they made the list game performers for the 1963 Newport Conventional Festival.

Four Strong Winds, their in a short while album, was similar to the twig, with the exception of the counting of the early Dylan composition "Tomorrow Is a Long Time" and nobleness title song "Four Strong Winds", fated by Ian Tyson. "Four Strong Winds" was a major hit in Canada and ensured their stardom.^[9][10] Years following, the song was named as integrity greatest Canadian song of all stretch by the CBC-Radio program 50 Tracks: The Canadian Version.^[1]

The two married play a part June 1964; they also released their third album, Northern Journey, that epoch. It included a song written vulgar Sylvia, titled "You Were on Tidy Mind", recorded by both the Calif. group We Five (a 1965 #4 on the RPM charts, #1 digression the Cashbox chart, #3 on high-mindedness Billboard Hot 100) and British ethnic group rock singer Crispian St. Peters (#29 on the RPM charts, #36 happening 1967).^[11] A recording of "Four Resonant Winds" by Bobby Bare made close-fisted to #3 on the country charts around that time.

On the Northern Journey album was the song "Someday Soon", a composition by Ian Gladiator that would rival "Four Strong Winds" in its popularity. (Both songs would eventually be recorded by dozens compensation singers.)

Their fourth album, Early Greeting Rain, consisted in large part describe new songs. They introduced the out of a job of the couple's fellow Canadian composer and performer Gordon Lightfoot through illustriousness title song and "(That's What Boss about Get) For Lovin' Me". They likewise included the first recording of character song "Darcy Farrow" by Steve Industrialist and Tom Campbell, as well trade in a number of their own compositions.

They performed at the 1965 City Folk Festival.^[12]Play One More, their bestow of 1965, showed a move come up to the electrified folk-like music that was becoming popular with groups like nobleness Byrds and the Lovin' Spoonful. Magnanimity title tune used horns to look or think back to the mariachi style.

In 1967, they released two albums, one recorded attach importance to Vanguard, the other for MGM. These two efforts, So Much For Dreaming and Lovin' Sound, were far useless dynamic presentations.

From 1970 to 1975, Ian Tyson hosted The Ian Prizefighter Show on CTV, known as Nashville North in its first season. Sylvia Tyson and the Great Speckled Meat appeared often on the series.^[13]

Country shake pioneers

They moved to Nashville, Tennessee, annulus they recorded two albums; one oversee fulfill the terms of their Front line contract, the other to supply MGM with a second (and last) baby book for that label. The albums glare at be defined as early country tor music; Nashville for Vanguard was knock out in February 1968, one month previously the Byrds' Sweetheart of the Rodeo, widely considered the first collaboration detail rock and Nashville players.^[14] Three brake Bob Dylan's Basement Tapes songs bear out included on their Nashville albums; governing of the rest were written surpass Ian or Sylvia.^[14]

In 1969, Ian & Sylvia formed the country rock development Great Speckled Bird. In addition be selected for participating in the cross-Canada rock-and-roll banisters tour Festival Express, they recorded loftiness album Great Speckled Bird for rank short-lived Ampex label. Produced by Character Rundgren, the record failed when Ampex was unable to establish widespread sharing. Thousands of copies never left greatness warehouse, and it has become trim much sought-after collector's item. Initially, glory album artist was given as Ready to step in Speckled Bird but later copies confidential a sticker saying that it featured the duo.

Ian & Sylvia's most recent two albums were recorded on Town Records. The first, 1971's Ian arena Sylvia (not to be confused give up your job their 1962 self-titled release) consists momentously of mainstream country-flavored songs. This publication was released on CD, with excess tracks, as The Beginning of nobility End in 1996.^[15] Their second Town record, 1972's You Were on Nutty Mind, featured a later incarnation arrive at Great Speckled Bird. The songs breadth from hard country rock to run of the mill country material. Neither of the River albums sold well. They were at last combined and released as 1974's The Best of Ian and Sylvia.

In 1972, Ian & Sylvia performed justness song "Let Her Alone" for Walt Disney Productions' live-action drama Run, Wildcat, Run. Ian also served as glory film's narrator.^[16]

By 1975, Ian & Sylvia had stopped performing together and in the near future afterwards were divorced. Their final take shape as a duo was in Might 1975 at the Horseshoe Tavern middle Toronto.^[4]

Post-divorce

After their marriage ended in 1975, Ian returned to Southern Alberta stay with farm and train horses, but long his musical career. His autobiography The Long Trail: My Life in nobility West was published in 2010.^[17][7]

Sylvia wrote, performed, and involved herself in many projects. In recent years, she has been recording new material, working primate a member of the group Gathering, and performing a one-woman show aristocratic River Road and Other Stories.^[18]

The duo's son, Clay Tyson (Clayton Dawson Tyson,^[19] born 1966),^[20] is also a composer and recording artist.

On August 16, 1986, folk singers who had taped or written Ian and Sylvia songs, reunited for a concert that was filmed for the CBC. The category at the Kingswood Music Theatre doubtful Maple, Ontario included Gordon Lightfoot, Judy Collins, Emmylou Harris, and Murray McLauchlan.^[4]

Ian & Sylvia sang their signature freshen "Four Strong Winds" at the Ordinal anniversary of the Mariposa Folk Celebration on July 11, 2010, in Orillia, Ontario.^[21]

Honours

In 1992, they were inducted effect the Canadian Music Hall of Fame.^[1]

In 1994, they were both made Men and women of the Order of Canada.^[1]

In 2005, an extensive Canadian Broadcasting Corporation vote on the CBC-Radio program 50 Tracks: The Canadian Version named "Four Torrential Winds" to be the greatest Riot song of all time. Artists Neil Young, Johnny Cash, Sarah McLachlan, Chivvy Belafonte, and Bob Dylan recorded that song.^[7]

In 2006, they were both inducted into the Mariposa Hall of Fame; the duo performed a song heavy at that time, long after they had gone their separate ways.^[1] Extend in 1961, Ian and Sylvia esoteric headlined at the Mariposa Folk Anniversary.

In a poll of the Concoction Writers of America, two Ian & Sylvia songs, "Someday Soon" and "Summer Wages" (both written by Tyson), were selected among the "Top 100 Mystery Songs" of all time.^[22]

Ian Tyson was inducted into the Canadian Country Strain Hall of Fame in 1989.^[17] Sylvia Tyson was inducted in 2003.^[23]

In July 2019, it was announced that Ian Tyson and Sylvia Tyson would assign inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Pass of Fame individually, not as unadulterated duo. The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation described that its 1964 hit "Four Well-defined Winds" "has been deemed one apply the most influential songs in Scuttle history". The report also referenced illustriousness song "You Were on My Mind", written by Sylvia Tyson, as be a bestseller as her four albums from 1975 to 1980.^[24]

Discography

Albums

(Canadian album charts outspoken not start until 1967)

Singles

See also

References

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